Kožara (Belgrade)

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Kožara (cyrillic: Кожара) is a river island in Belgrade, located on the left bank of the Danube. It is part of the Belgrade City proper and belongs to the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Kožara is a triangularly shaped island, located in the Banat section of the municipality of Palilula between the Danube and the Jojkićev Dunavac canal, ending section of the Vizelj stream in Pančevački Rit. It is part of greater Heron Island.

The island is floodable, completely covered with forest and without permanent population. On the Jojkićev Dunavac's mouth into the Danube, across Kožara, a weekend-settlement of Mika Alas is located. There are several permanent elongated bogs on the island.

It represents an oasis of undisturbed natural life even though it is only 600 meters away from the old core of Belgrade, the neighborhood of Dorćol, right across the Danube. Despite this, in 2005 Belgrade City government announced that Kožara is the most likely site of the future much enlarged semi-artificial island envisioned as the twin-island of the Great War Island, also on the Danube, 800 meters to the southwest.

Unlike Great War Island which is protected by the law and any human interference is prohibited, future enlarged Kožara along with island Čaplja is projected as the island-aqua park, featuring some sport facilities, fields and courts.